Apple must pay patent holding firm VirnetX over $368 million following their lawsuit loss.
This week, a U.S. District Court upheld a previous decision against Apple. Apple was found guilty of infringing patents that related to "networking technology utilized in its FaceTime video chat service."
Additionally, Apple will have to pay VirnetX $330,000 per day until the case is settled, ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by Mrguss: The majority of patent lawsuits today are filed by trolls.
SHIELD-Act will help stop this:
https://eff.org/SHIELD
The majority of these large tech corporations, including Apple, are buying up huge blocks of patents. They are doing it either by themselves, or as part of a "consortium." With all of the billions these corporations have been spending buying up patents, do you really think they would allow something like this to pass? It would only devalue what they have been investing in. It is a sneaky way for them to create a monopoly, Apple got caught this time. Live by the sword....
Now if the act could be tweaked to just favor the large corporate patent trolls, and keep their losses to a minimum, well that would be another story.
Originally posted by buddyleem: How can video chat be patented ?
Just a prime example of how patients have gotten way too carried away these days. Next someone will patient air and then we all will pay. LOL
I do love it that Apple is getting nailed regardless of how ridiculous it is.
Actually, it's not that carried away. The patent is probably not so much for the concept of a real-time video communication as it is the underlying protocol(s) used to give it acceptable quality. A lot of research and money goes into developing a protocol that can pass a certain type of content across the internet that is inherently a best-effort infrastructure. It's probably the lower level software that Apple stole and used to get a good quality transmission across varied connection qualities.
Doesnt expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected and therefore mean youre expecting the expected which was the unexpected until you expected it?
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